Donald Trump’s second-term agenda is not only causing substantial near-term damage to the US economy, but also fundamentally threatening America’s global standing and competitiveness.

Mordecai Kurz is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the author of The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age (Columbia University Press, 2023) and ...

Trump owes his electoral success to workers without college degrees who feel betrayed by the system. The onset of AI will ...

Sven Biscop teaches at the University of Ghent and heads the Europe in the World programme at Egmont — Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels. He is the author of This Is Not a New ...

‘Donald, you have driven us to a really, really important moment for America and Europe, and the world. You will achieve something NO American president in decades could get done. Europe is going to ...

In the six years since Donald Trump last attended a NATO summit back in his first term, the world has changed dramatically. The old international security frame of reference has failed the tests of a ...

Emmanuel Cohen-Hadria is Executive Board member of Diplomeds, a cross-Mediterranean policy group advocating for dialogue and cooperation and facilitating back-channel talks in the region. He co-edited ...

The EU’s hands-off approach to the Morocco-Algeria conflict is backfiring — the cost of non-engagement is clear, and so are the opportunities The European Union is seeking to reinvigorate its ...

Dr. Reinhold Brender is a Senior Associate Fellow at Belgium’s EGMONT – Royal Institute for International Relations. A former EU official, he brings extensive expertise in EU external relations, ...

The collapse of consensus on global development threatens more than progress — it jeopardises peace. The EU must lead, not by default but by design picture alliance / SIPA | Arnaud Andrieu António ...

‘I’m standing here in pieces, and you’re having delusions of grandeur!’ The line, delivered in an acclaimed Hollywood movie from 1980, might well serve as Europe’s most accurate opening gambit in a ...

Heavy street fighting broke out between rival militias in the centre of Libya’s capital, Tripoli, just weeks before Eid al-Adha (the Feast of Sacrifice). The clashes were the most violent seen in some ...